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Offline SunTracker

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« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2005, 05:36:11 AM »
I was on final approaching to Charlotte riding on an Embraer jet.  I could tell the pilot was coming in too fast, and at the last moment we zoomed down the runway, he pulled up into a loop.  At the top of the loop he cut his engines, lowered the gear, and  then we started down towards the ground.  He pulled the nose up, we touched down on the runway and coasted exactly to the gate.  As we got off the plane, the stewardesses handed each of us a bar of gold from Fort Knox, and also french kissed us.
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Offline Slash27

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« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2005, 08:24:30 AM »
Im shocked it took so long for someone to mention LaGuardia. Dad was a TWA/American pilot and that was his least favorite.

I didnt much care for it. Actually it scared the hell out of me.
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« Reply #32 on: March 19, 2005, 08:30:00 AM »
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I hear Denver is also exciting to come in to.


:D  My wife`s fingerprints are permantly embedded on my arm resulting from a twin prop hop from Rapid City to Denver.
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« Reply #33 on: March 19, 2005, 08:31:44 AM »
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I was on final approaching to Charlotte riding on an Embraer jet.  I could tell the pilot was coming in too fast, and at the last moment we zoomed down the runway, he pulled up into a loop.  At the top of the loop he cut his engines, lowered the gear, and  then we started down towards the ground.  He pulled the nose up, we touched down on the runway and coasted exactly to the gate.  As we got off the plane, the stewardesses handed each of us a bar of gold from Fort Knox, and also french kissed us.


I think I was on that flight. 1986?
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« Reply #34 on: March 19, 2005, 09:39:23 AM »
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Heh, Edwardsville (at SIUE) was where we used to go when I was a teenager if you wanted to party till you puked and absolutely KNOW somebody would have pot.


ROFL, I graduated from SIUE. :)
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« Reply #35 on: March 19, 2005, 10:06:01 AM »
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I was on final approaching to Charlotte riding on an Embraer jet.  I could tell the pilot was coming in too fast, and at the last moment we zoomed down the runway, he pulled up into a loop.  At the top of the loop he cut his engines, lowered the gear, and  then we started down towards the ground.  He pulled the nose up, we touched down on the runway and coasted exactly to the gate.  As we got off the plane, the stewardesses handed each of us a bar of gold from Fort Knox, and also french kissed us.



:rofl :rofl :rofl
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« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2005, 10:08:35 AM »


Yeowza!
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« Reply #37 on: March 19, 2005, 10:29:44 AM »
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Offline Howitzer

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« Reply #38 on: March 19, 2005, 12:48:45 PM »
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ROFL, I graduated from SIUE. :)


I'm from a little town called Staunton which is about 20 min. from Edwardsville, and 35 min from downtown St. Louis...  Kinda reminds me of Maybury  =)
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« Reply #39 on: March 19, 2005, 12:58:35 PM »


this is taken from the above website. dunno what it means, its in pilotese ;)

Ive been to Bogota only 3 times in my life and every single time the landing was frightening.
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« Reply #40 on: March 19, 2005, 01:30:28 PM »
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I'd say one  of the most fun approaches is down the potomac at Washington (now Ronald Reagan) National. The plane will be banking this and that way and for extra excitement you'll clearly see the faces of people looking up at you on the little viewing island.  

First time I ever rode that approach I thought we were gonna crash or something based on those people looking at us and pointing.


I hear Denver is also exciting to come in to.


I've been one of those people looking and pointing, used to go there when I was a kid.  There's a little park under the "up river" approach; the planes fly about 3-500 over your head.

The sound of the wind swirling is awesome--kind of freaky actually.
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« Reply #41 on: March 19, 2005, 01:33:24 PM »
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The approach path to Ronald Reagan International in Washington DC is among the most thrilling and tricky. Following the Potomac at low alt is one of the few allowed approaches and is set that way because of all the restricted airspace surrounding it.
Denver is thrilling because of the altitude, but for a real thrill, fly into Aspen sometime:D
I think that Atlanta has some interesting approaches because of the noise abatement rules, which, come to think of it, affect many of the airports in or very near to metropolitan areas.


Actually the old checkerboard, lead in light approach into Old Hong Kong International is one of the more thrilling approaches in the world. Then again, maybe its why the closed the airport.

Anyway, you'd aim at the old checkboard that sat 3/4 of the way up a mountainside, then you'd see the lead in lights and begin the approach. As you made the standard rate turn onto final you could look in the windows of the apartments on both sides of the B747-200 as you flew by em.:)  Then...you hadda roll out on centerline and get her on the deck before you went swimming. That was a wild ride from the cockpit. It musta scared the life outa anyone in the back.:lol Especially when they hadda look up and sideways to see people watching tv. I think Lufthasna put one in the infield so they wouldn't take a dip but Korean mighta went swimming a few times. And once a jet touches salt water its cheaper to write it off (and legal) than to try and retrieve the wreak.
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« Reply #42 on: March 19, 2005, 01:34:39 PM »
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Originally posted by SunTracker
I was on final approaching to Charlotte riding on an Embraer jet.  I could tell the pilot was coming in too fast, and at the last moment we zoomed down the runway, he pulled up into a loop.  At the top of the loop he cut his engines, lowered the gear, and  then we started down towards the ground.  He pulled the nose up, we touched down on the runway and coasted exactly to the gate.  As we got off the plane, the stewardesses handed each of us a bar of gold from Fort Knox, and also french kissed us.


Bob Hoover was the pilot right? :) He used to do that to us all the time.
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« Reply #43 on: March 19, 2005, 01:34:50 PM »
Most frightning landings for me are (but being a passenger I don't realy know of course if the situation realy was all that dangerous)

1) Madrid Barajas airport. Comin in from Santiago de chili (Chile) in a 747. Aproach was in a thunderstorm with no visibility at all. I was seated in the back of the plane near the galley. With gear and flaps out I felt a sudden jolt that was much harder then the others (flying through a thunderstorm you've got alot of jolts), I believed the plane veered left but I'm not sure because I had no reference... outside was grey/black. A stewardess behind me in the galley seats began weeping and panicking, a colleague comforted her. That got me worrying a bit, since if they start panicking it sure isn't a normal aproach. Landing came sudden, I thought we were in a turn when we touched down. After the landing the captain told us that we had been hit by lightning on final aproach (gear and flaps out).

2) La Paz airport Bolivia. Not a special landing as in dangerous but because it felt like he kept engine throttle very high during approach. After thought... he should have ofcourse, landing at 13000 feet :D

3) Juarez Mexico City airport is also a nice one. Mexico city being surrounded by high vulcanoes, and at an alt of 6000 feet.

Then again, I'm sure that every commercial airline pilot must have had some close calls in his career.
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« Reply #44 on: March 19, 2005, 01:36:42 PM »
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Originally posted by Stang
I really believe pilots are no better at what they do than what everyone else in the population does.  Think of it in the terms of athletics: less than 1% of the entire population excells at any given sport, and I believe this goes for anything, including flying.  Maybe he was just a wanna be ho-tarding lala punk

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You can teach any monkey to fly...............with enough banana's.
Why would you think Pilots are any different? :D

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